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Only caught five crappies yesterday. All hit icicles though. Had fun though. It was dangerous trying to stand on a laydown in the water. Will post a photo later today. The fillets were tasty.
Well these have been the biggest of the season so far for me. They biggest were 15"; 16: and a pig of one at 17.5" Three of us, (Tim, Tony and me) were fishing from the shore at first. we kept casting toward the tree laydown and I kept losing icicles and jigs in the tree as did others. After losing about 20 jigs tony got the bright idea of walking out on the limb and vertical jigging. When he started to catch fish I timidly ventured out on the log itself and also verticle jigged. The tree was in 5' of water and wer were shaking jigs at about 2 feet down in the thickest branches.

We caught several 9 and 10 inch dinks and then some big boys came in. My crappies were caught on red/white icicles. That catfish hit a 2' grey and black minnow. All lures were made by Bob's jigs and tipped with crappie nibbles. It was a great day. I only stayed on the log about an hour til my ankles hurt, but it sure was fun!